A staggering revolution : a cultural history of thirties photography

We cite from the COVER :
"During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's A Staggering Revolution re-creates the era's energy by surveying photography's extraordinary ferment, revealing the esthetic and cultural achievements of its leading figures and mapping the paths their pictures blazed into the public's imagination.
A Staggering Revolution includes chapters on Edward Steichen's celebrity portraiture; Berenice Abbott's Changing New York project; the Harlem Document group's ethnography of Harlem; and Edward Weston's western landscapes made under the auspices of the first Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to a photographer. It also examines Margaret Bourke-White's industrial and documentary pictures, California's Group f.64, the fashion magazine specialists, and the activities of the Farm Security Administration and Photo League."
CONTENTS :
1. The rebirth of photography in the thirties --
2. Disestablishing Stieglitz --
3. Group f.64 and the problem of California photography --
4. An eastern beachhead --
5. Edward Steichen and celebrity photography --
6. MoMA's big top show --
7. Camera periodicals and the popular audience --
8. Culture morphology in Berenice Abbott's New York --
9. Farm Security Administration photography and the dilemmas of art --
10. Farm Security Administration photography in the aura of art --
11. The nation's newsstands --
12. The photo league, Lewis Hine, and the Harlem document --
13. Seeing California with Edward Weston --
14. Photography at high tide
15. Afterword: "The Cultural Establishment of Photography"--
16. Notes / Index.
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